Beyond Basic Multiplication

When your CS professor asks for a simple multiplication function but you decide to use recursion and set your computer's RAM on LITERAL FIRE! 🔥 The code is basically saying "I'll add 'a' to itself 'b' times" but in the MOST DRAMATIC WAY POSSIBLE! Your poor CPU is screaming in agony while calculating 3×4 through FOUR recursive calls when a simple multiplication operator would've done the job in 0.000001 seconds! The stack trace is probably longer than my list of regrets after staying up all night debugging this monstrosity! And for what? To impress who exactly?! The computer gods are NOT amused, honey! 💅